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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Donner.
  • Irish (Counties Roscommon and Leitrim) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dúnabhra, Ó Donnabhair ‘descendant of Dúnabhra’, from donn ‘brown’ + abhra ‘eyebrow’.

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